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To: mazda77
According to this it has carbon fiber shaftlines. However, propulsion comes from jet drives, not standard propellers (except for the bow thrusters)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(LCS-2)

(For some reason the last “)” is not picked up by the hyperlink, so you'll have to click a second time once you reach wiki.)

11 posted on 06/19/2011 3:45:23 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: Roccus

I have seen it here in Jax a couple of times. It was at the BAE ship fitters for some tower updates. When they said steel prop shafts in the article, I knew it was jet drive but they also have shafts for the jets. Whatever the case, have them changed out to composite and see how they perform. The first two were built to mainly test under operational conditions. Rarely does anyone get it 100% right the first time out.

Technically, it is a thing of beauty and I love that it essentially produces no bow wake and for that matter, not much of a wake at all.


32 posted on 06/19/2011 5:25:52 AM PDT by mazda77
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